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13 Sports Law. J. 207 (2006)
Boxing: Why It Should Be down for the Count

handle is hein.journals/sportlj13 and id is 211 raw text is: Boxing: Why It Should Be Down for the Count Antoinette Vacca* 1. IN TRODUCTION ................................................................................. 208 II. AN OVERVIEW OF BOXING ................................................................ 208 A . B oxing MIstory ....................................................................... 208 B. B oxing Greats ..................................................................... 211 III. GOVERNMENT REGULATION OF BOXING ......................................... 213 A. The Professional Boxing and SafetyAct of 1996 ................. 214 B. The MuhamnadAli BoxingReform Act of2000 ................ 215 C ProfessionalBoxingAmendmentsActs of2003 and 2 005 ......................................................................................... 2 15 IV MEDICAL PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH BOXING ........................... 216 A. Immediate and Long- Term Risks forAdults ......................... 216 1. Vision Problems and Blindness ..................................... 216 2. Paralysis, Coma, and Death ........................................... 218 3. Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Diseases, and Pugilistic D em entia ........................................................ 220 B. Immediate andLong- Term Risks for Children ..................... 221 V C OST TO SOCIETY ............................................................................. 223 A . H ealth Care Costs ................................................................... 223 B. Costs ofSpecialEducation and Loss of Contributions to Society from Cognitvely Impaired Children .................... 224 VI. GOVER aMENTAL SOLUTIONS TO THE PROBLEM .............................. 225 A. Ban Head Hts and Educate A bout Health Risks .................. 225 B. Eliminate Government Sponsorship and/or Funding for Youth Boxing and Olympic Boxing Programs ...................... 227 C Outlaw TelevisingBoxingEvents andAdvertising for B oxing E vents ......................................................................... 228 * J.D., Marquette University Law School; M.A., Mount Mary College; B.EA,, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. The author is in private practice, specializing in intellectual property and the arts. The author wishes to thank Professor Alison Barnes of Marquette University Law School for her constructive comments on an earlier version of this Article for a Law and Public Health Seminar. A special thank you to the author's father, Dr. Gabriel Ceci, whose attempts to convince one of his patients to give up a Golden Gloves career inspired this research.

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